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It is stale with unhappiness, misery at its most lifeless.
"[It] hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen".
The 1991 quote from Bill Parcells referring to Philadelphia as a "banana republic" is as inaccurate as it is stale.
Often, the best thing about panettone, a traditional Italian fruit-studded Christmas cake, is making French toast with it once it is stale.
But Aunty's star recruit from the Murdoch empire is already talking down the show, implying it is stale in comparison with Sky News programs which are made on the smell of an oily rag but are live and dynamic.
Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut about four old people in a retirement home for classical musicians and singers has some polish, but it is stale, lifeless and often weirdly humourless, like the filmed record of some sort of glossy brochure photoshoot.
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About five seconds later, it was stale.
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